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The intended and unintended effects of US agricultural and biotechnology policies
Zivin, Joshua S. Graff (contributor);  … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517862
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Regulatory Exploitation and the Market for Corporate Controls
Dafny, Leemore - 2006
economically significant predictor of whether a hospital replaces its management with a new team of for-profit managers. We also … find that hospitals replacing their management subsequently upcode more than a sample of similar hospitals that did not, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466226
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Does management matter? : evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen (contributor) - 2011
"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm … performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394862
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Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas - 2011
A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm … performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461999
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International Trade : Linking Micro and Macro
Eaton, Jonathan - 2012
A recent literature has introduced heterogeneous firms into models of international trade. This literature has adopted the convention of treating individual firms as points on a continuum. While the continuum offers many advantages this convenience comes at some cost: (1) Shocks to individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460795
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Does Trade Globalization Induce or Inhibit Corporate Transparency? Unbundling the Growth Potential and Product Market Competition Channels
Tong, Hui - 2011
How does increasing globalization affect corporate transparency? Freer trade represents different facets and in theory has ambiguous effects on corporate transparency. On the one hand, by exposing firms to more product market competition, it could discourage discretionary disclosure. On the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461026
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Optimal Monetary Policy with Informational Frictions
Angeletos, George-Marios - 2011
This paper studies optimal policy in a business-cycle setting in which firms have a blurry understanding of the state of the economy due to informational or cognitive constraints. The latter are not only the source of nominal rigidity but also an impediment in the coordination of production. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461077
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Mutual Fund Performance and the Incentive to Generate Alpha
Del Guercio, Diane - 2011
find that flows chase risk-adjusted returns, and that funds respond by investing more in active management. Importantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461166
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Economies of Density and Congestion in the Sharing Economy
Caunedo, Julieta; Kala, Namrata; Zhang, Haimeng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The sharing economy for a wide range of goods and services is expanding across the world. To direct the benefits from sharing capital services towards small-scale producers, governments in the developing world are increasingly intervening in fast-growing mechanization rental markets. However,...
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Are Small Farms Really more Productive than Large Farms?
Sanchez, Fernando M. Aragon - 2019
We revisit the long-standing empirical evidence of an inverse relationship between farm size and productivity using rich microdata from Uganda. We show that farm size is negatively related to yields (output per hectare), as commonly found in the literature, but positively related to farm...
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